1 ¶ In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.

2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lips that lie, and tongues that deceive.

3 What will he give to you? or what more has he for you, you deceitful tongue?

4 Only sharp arrows of the mighty, with glowing coals of the broom tree.

5 ¶ I am miserable, because I lodge in Mesech, and live among the tents of Kedar!

6 I have lived too long with those who hate peace.

7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 121

1 ¶ I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help.

2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not allow your foot to slip: he who keeps you will not slumber.

4 Behold, he who guards Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is your guardian: the LORD is your shelter at your right hand.

6 The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will protect you from all evil: he will preserve your soul.

8 The LORD will protect your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalm 122

1 ¶ I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the LORD.

2 Our feet will stand inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is solidly joined together:

4 To which the tribes, the tribes of the LORD go up, as a testimony to Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

5 For there thrones of judgment are placed, the thrones of the house of David.

6 ¶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: those who love you will prosper.

7 May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

8 For the sake of my friends and brothers, I will now say, Peace be within you.

9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.

Psalm 123

1 ¶ To you I lift up my eyes, O you who live in the heavens.

2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes are on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.

3 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us: for we have had more than enough contempt.

4 Our souls have had more than enough of the scoffing by those who are at ease, and the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124

1 ¶ If we did not have the LORD on our side, Israel should now say;

2 If we did not have the LORD on our side, when men rose up against us:

3 Then they would have quickly swallowed us up, when their wrath was flaming against us:

4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the torrent would have swept over us:

5 Then the proudly raging waters would have swept us away.

6 ¶ Praise the LORD, who has not given us up as prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 125

1 ¶ Those who trust in the LORD will be like mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but remains for ever.

2 As the mountains are around Jerusalem, the LORD is around his people both now and for ever.

3 For the scepter of the wicked will not rest on the land allotted to the righteous; lest the righteous stretch out their hands to iniquity.

4 ¶ Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts.

5 As for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity: but peace will be upon Israel.

Psalm 126

1 ¶ When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then it was said among the heathen, The LORD has done great things for them.

3 The LORD has done great things for us; of which we are glad.

4 ¶ Return our fortunes, O LORD, as the streams return in the desert.

5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

6 He that goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed, will surely return rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Psalm 127

1 ¶ Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain: unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

2 It is useless for you to get up early, and sit up late, O you who eat the bread of toil: for he gives sleep to those he loves.

3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

4 The sons born in one’s youth, are like arrows in the hand of a mighty man.

5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them: he will not come to shame, because they will drive the enemies from the gate.